Pedanandipadu

Pedanandipadu
—  village  —
Coordinates
Country India
State Andhra Pradesh
District(s) Guntur
Subdistrict(s) Pedanandipadu
Time zone IST (UTC+05:30)

Pedanandipadu is a village and a mandal in Guntur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.[1]

Pedanandipadu village is 30 km away from Guntur, the district headquarters, on the way towards Parchur via Prathipadu. This is one of the fast developing Mandals in Guntur district with much political literacy and devotional sense.

Pedanandipadu people have a significant place in Indian history for their protests against the British ruling under the leadership of 'Parvathaneni Veeraiah Chowdary', whose statue proudly stands in the center of Pedanandipadu. The Statues of Dr B R Ambedkar and Com. Kolla Venkaiah are at the center of the Village.

There are Sivalayam, Vaishnavalayam, Ramaalayam, Shirdi Sai temple, Puttaparthi Sai Baba Chanting area, one mosque, and many churches around the village.

Pedanandipadu is the education hub for the surrounding three mandals: Kakumanu, Prathipadu, and Parchuru. The Pedanandipadu Arts and Science college provides education from Intermediate to Post Graduation and the professional courses of MBA and MCA. A Public library named after Com. Kolla Venkaiah as a memorial library is located at the centre of the village stands as an Icon of library movement in the region.

A Couple of schools namely 'Lions Montessori High School' and 'Ashoka Public School' provide education in telugu medium apart from the famous government run 'ZPPH School'. 'Srinivasa Public School' comes as special facility for English Medium Students.

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History

Pedanandipadu “Pannula nirakarana" means no tax payment to the Government, was famous in the history of Indian freedom struggle.It was started at a meeting at Pusuluru village near Pedanandipadu, organised by Sanaka Seetharamaiah and other village karanams and munsifs. It was extended to 80 villages in Guntur district under the able leadership of Parvathaneni Veeraiah popularly known as Andhra Shivaji. Riding on a horse, singing Patriotic songs and encoraging the people not to cooperate with the foreign government.Even Rutherford who suppressed Manyam struggle led by Alluri Seetharamaraju , could not suppress Pedanandipadu freedom struggle.Gandhiji ill-advised by Pattabhi seetharamaiah instructed the district congress committee to call off the struggle. Konda Venkatappaiah and other leaders reluctantly obeyed Gandhiji and stopped the historical freedom struggle in Pedanandipadu. Pedanandipadu is the birthplace of famous freedom fighter Kolla Venkaiah. In 1934 he participated in the all India congress conference at Bombay as a delegate He organized the freedom struggle in and around this place.

Pedanandipadu village stood in the forefront in professing and practicing untouchability, since the period of independence struggle. People were praised for this by Gandhi when he visited this place. Sri Parvathaneni Veeraiah Choudary, Lavu Ankamma, Sanaka Seetharamaiah, Narra Rangaiah, Dasari Subbaiah, Kolla Venkaiah are some of the names of Freedom Fighters of the area.

Dis-illusioned with the congress policies, Kolla Venkaiah joined the communist movement along with Nanduri Prasada Rao, Pulupula Venkata Sivayya, Polepeddi Narasimha Murthy, Pendyala lokanadham, Makineni Basavapunnaiah, Moturi Hanumantha Rao and others. He worked as a leader of downtrodden and peasants. He was elected as the first chairman of the Agricultural marketing society in 1944 and as an MLA in 1952 and as an MP in 1962.

He is the founder of communist movement in this area and started organizing Agricultural labour unions(Vyavasaya Coolie Sangham), Rythu sangham and youth movement(Yuvajana Sangham).he integrated freedom struggle with downtrodden peoples' movement. untouchability was fought by the youth. Many reform movements were organized around Pedanandipadu. Palaparru village near Pedanandipadu is a village of Heroes who fought against the atrocities of landlords and the British government. Memorial was erected for heroes like Prakasam, Ammaiah at Palaparru village.

Pedanandipadu village stood in the forefront in the formation of the communist party by Comrade Kolla Venkaiah.He was supported by a group of young selfless youth like kolla Bapaiah, kolla Veeraiah, Alla Raghavaiah,B Venkata Raju, Chennupati Venkata subbaiah, Bonigala Punnaiah, Satyanandam, Kotiratnam, Nannapaneni Chalamaiah, Lavu Ankamma Choudary, Nangineni Venkateswarlu, Tamalapakula Subbarao,Reduncle and many others. They organized many struggles for the upliftment of the down trodden. Romperu Banjaru Satyagraham was an historic example of the unity of workers and Peasants who fought for the sake of land to the poor.

Economy

Pedanandipadu has cotton, tobacco, and chili farming.

Neighbouring villages

kommuru also one of great village for well known people with vastknowledge ...

References

  1. ^ "List of Sub-Districts". Census of India. http://www.censusindia.gov.in/. Retrieved 2007-04-27.